Historic New Car Prices?

Cetshwayo

Where is the best place to look for new car prices covering the last 10-15 years?

Trying to figure out how prices have risen so quickly.

Is this all down to the rise PCP of deals.........."oh it's only another £20/month , that's not too bad" and up go the prices year on year.

I presume the manufacturers will be blaming legislation.

Car_54

Have you any evidence that prices have risen "so quickly"?


I've seen a figure of a 38.1% rise in the average new car price over the decade to 2018, or 3.25% per year. That doesn't seem excessive, bearing in mind that


1. With each model change, cars tend to be "improved", and


2. The economy has improved over the period, meaning many prople will have traded up to more expensive models.

owen_money

And the price of butter has more than doubled in the same time frame!

Cetshwayo

[quote=[Deleted User];75509761]Have you any evidence that prices have risen "so quickly"?[/QUOTE]

That's why I'm trying to find source to do some back of a fag packet comparisons.

Typhoon2000

Inflation calculator shows inflation at 33% over that 10 years to 2018. Not sure if that includes the rise in VAT from 15% to 20%.
Going back further, A Golf GTi was £10548 in 1988, that would make it £27800 in 2018, but it’s £25845 now.

System

New prices haven't risen quickly. The new price of a Mondeo today is within £1000 of what my 9 year old one was when it was new. The price of second hand ones though has risen, an equivalent to what I paid for mine at 2 years old is now £3000 more.

worried_jim

owen_money wrote: »

And the price of butter has more than doubled in the same time frame!

Get yourself down to Lidl!

MX5huggy

Go to the dentist. They always have just 1 ancient car magazine under the pile of magazines about women getting dressed. Review the listings in the back.

daveyjp

Parkers website has original prices under the reviews section.